Jharsuguda is the district headquarters of Jharsuguda district of Odisha, India. It is the administrative headquarters of Jharsuguda district. It is an upcoming industrial hub, basically in the metal and cement sectors. Jharsuguda is well connected to all major cities of India through the rail network. It is popularly known as the power house of Odisha due to large number of thermal power plants located nearby.

Jharsuguda is located at 21°51′N84°02′E﻿ / ﻿21.85°N 84.03°E﻿ / 21.85; 84.03.[1] It has an average elevation of 218 metres (715 ft). Jharsuguda is situated at the western end of Odisha state. it is 515 km from Kolkata. State highway 10 and National highway 200 pass through Jharsuguda. The Ib River flows along the Western side of Jharsuguda town and the river Vheden flows in the south. The area of the town is 70.47 km2. and population of 579,499 (as per 2001 Census).

The town situated at 21.82° north longitude and 84.1° latitude at a height of 700–750 feet above mean sea level. The highest temperature recorded in summer is 48.0 °C and it has an average rain fall of 1527 mm.

The culture of Jharsuguda is from all over India, but basically Kosli. Following is a list of major festivals celebrated in the town.

Nuakhai: This is an important festival for the people of Kosal(Western Odisha). All the persons of a family gather during this period and eat together. After that, the younger take the blessings of elders and dance with friends.

Message-Always give the respect to elder and take the blessing from him

Bhai Jauntia: A Festival observe by the sisters of this region in which sister prays betterment of the brother.

Durga Puja: Durga Puja has been celebrated in public pandals in the town for more than half a century.Specilly Durga pandel of Chowki para and mangal bazar and puja by Sri Santimai mukhrajee in chowki para is very devotional.

This cosmopolitan town is fast emerging as the economic hub of Odisha; the state government has formed a master plan for the city's development.[5] Jharsuguda has a unit of Ultratech Cement of the Aditya Birla Group at Dhutra, which is India's largest cement manufacturing company.[6] Many small- and medium-scale steel units are being set up in the town vicinity, including Bhushan Power & Steel Limited (Thelkoloi village), SMC Power Generation Ltd., Action Ispat Ltd., Eastern Steel & Power Ltd., TRL Krosaki Refractories Limited and Concast Steel & Power Ltd. A few large-scale units of Vedanta Alumina Ltd and Utkal Alumina International Ltd will be setting up units in the area.

UltraTech Cement Limited has set up a 4.0 MTPA capacity Cement grinding Unit, the Largest in Orissa.

Sesa Sterlite Limited ( Formally known as Vedanta Aluminium Limited - VAL and Sterlite Energy Limited - SEL) [7] has set up a 0.5 million-tonne aluminium smelter (in operation) and a 1.2 Million Tonne Smelter (undergoing startup). The 0.5 Million Tonne Smelter is supported by a 1200 MW (135*9 MW) Captive Power Plant (CPP). In addition to this, there is a 2400 MW (600*4 MW) Independent Power Plant (IPP) also at the same site. Vedanta has chalked out a massive 4.6 billion dollar expansion for the project.[8]

Reliance Energy has proposed to set up a 12,000 MW thermal power plant at a cost of Rs 48,000 crore (Rs 480 billion) at Hirma in the Jharsuguda district of Odisha.[9]

Orissa Power Generation Corporation (OPGC) established IB Thermal Power Station having two units of 210 MW each in the Ib valley area of Jharsuguda and is developing a 1,220 MW power plant at same place.

<In recent years Jharsuguda district has witnessed a large scale Industrialization.

Since pre-independence days, the city has had a relatively developed transportation network. The main mode of transport is cycle and rickshaw. However, in the last few years auto rickshaws, Savaris, Vans, Buses have also started as a means of local transport.

The current MLA from Jharsuguda Assembly Constituency is Naba Kishore Das (Naba Das), who won the seat 2009 and 2014 State elections by defeating Kishor Mohanty of BJD. Birendra Chandra Pandey of INC had won this seat in 1995, 1985 and 1980. Sairindra Nayak of INC was MLA from this seat in 1977[12]